Rubric: “This romance that follows has to be played very slowly and concerning the ‘compás mayor’ by which is understood as one breve per bar as you can see, and concerning the way it sounds: the singer has to embellish when the vihuela has no redobles. This romance has to be played three times because the text has to be read three times from beginning to end.” This last part refers to the three stanzas of text that are underlaid beneath the tablature.

A variant of this poem, ”Triste estaua y muy penosa,” is included in Hernando del Castillo, Cancionero General, 2nd edition, (Valencia 1514), but it is not in the first edition.Another copy of the text under the heading “Roma[n]ce dela Reyna Troyana glosad: y un Romance de Amadis: hecho por Alonso de Solaya” (n.p., n.d.) reproduced in Pliegos poéticos góticos de la Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid, 1957), vol. II, p. 65,